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intelligence says government surveillance has foiled more than 50 plots. i'll ask senator rand paul if he's buying it. >>> authorities want you to help solve an unsolved crime of a bombing in times square. >>> and mod irp-day slavery in ohio. federal prosecutors say the spts used beatings, dogs, and snakes against a mentally disabled woman and her child. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm jim acosta, and you're in the situation room. . facing public outrage over massic government surveillance, the nsa and other security agencies took their case to the public telling a rare open door congressional hearing that those programs have helped foil more than 50 terror plots. then those officials took the unusual step of detailing those handful of threats. our correspondent dana bash is up on capitol hill. she has the details. hi there, there, dana. >> hi, jim. the goal of the hearing was to try to de mismystify the heariny giving more detail to the public than ever before, but even those on the panel who are mostly supportive have some skeptics. a plot to blow up the
intelligence says government surveillance has foiled more than 50 plots. i'll ask senator rand paul if he's buying it. >>> authorities want you to help solve an unsolved crime of a bombing in times square. >>> and mod irp-day slavery in ohio. federal prosecutors say the spts used beatings, dogs, and snakes against a mentally disabled woman and her child. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm jim acosta, and you're in the situation room. . facing public outrage over massic government...
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government has been hacking into computers in china for years. if snowden were to defect, what would the chinese want most from him? >> what the chinese don't have is they don't have a knowledge of where we have been successful, whose phone has been hacked, whose computer has been hacked. they don't know that. and so if he can tell them places, specific places that have been hacked, they can go and close off the source. >> reporter: we called an e-mail the chinese embassy in washington and asked if their government has made contact with snowden and if he wanted asylum would they grant it? they didn't respond. and again, growing concerns about kind of information edward snowden may have and be able to give the chinese on double agents, military systems that were targeted, u.s. officials very concerned about that right now, jim. >> brian, what would the process be like if he were to try to ask for asylum in china, if he were to try to seek some sort of permission from the chinese government to stay in their country? what would happen next? >> well,
government has been hacking into computers in china for years. if snowden were to defect, what would the chinese want most from him? >> what the chinese don't have is they don't have a knowledge of where we have been successful, whose phone has been hacked, whose computer has been hacked. they don't know that. and so if he can tell them places, specific places that have been hacked, they can go and close off the source. >> reporter: we called an e-mail the chinese embassy in...
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government spying. in a speech at germany's historic brandenburg gate he alluded to the controversy over nsa surveillance and he promised a balance between security and privacy. >> our current programs are bound by the rule of law and they're focused on threats to our security. not the communications of ordinary persons. they help confront real dangers, and they keep people safe here in the united states and here in europe. >> the nsa leak may be getting even more attention in china than in europe as far as we know. the leaker, edward snowden, still is hiding out in china's back yard, hong kong. the controversy is raising a lot of questions about snowden's ties to the communist regime and about china's relationship with the u.s. cnn's david mckenzie joins us live from beijing. david? by showing up in hong kong edward snowden opened himself up to those questions. the question is -- does china want him here or not? >> edward snowden surfaced in hong kong with a laptop full of secrets to expose a u.s. surv
government spying. in a speech at germany's historic brandenburg gate he alluded to the controversy over nsa surveillance and he promised a balance between security and privacy. >> our current programs are bound by the rule of law and they're focused on threats to our security. not the communications of ordinary persons. they help confront real dangers, and they keep people safe here in the united states and here in europe. >> the nsa leak may be getting even more attention in china...
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government is saying is how much of the information apple actually turned over to the government. given apple's share of the internet product market, we're also left to wonder just how much more of our data it may hand over in the future. in the last quarter, it sold more than 50 million ipads and phones. it's got hundreds of millions of active users of its products. it's now the latest high-tech company to disclose that it's been involved with the u.s. government's internet surveillance program. apple says it got between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for customer data from u.s. law enforcement agencies during the six months ending in may. that covers 9,000 to 10,000 accounts or devices. apple says most of the requests were from police, investigating robberies, abductions and other crimes, trying to prevent suicides. but some were for national security matters, although the company did not say how many. >> privacy cloaks the whole thing. we don't know what the government is asking for, how often they're asking it for, and what legal authority they cite for doing it. >> mark rash is a f
government is saying is how much of the information apple actually turned over to the government. given apple's share of the internet product market, we're also left to wonder just how much more of our data it may hand over in the future. in the last quarter, it sold more than 50 million ipads and phones. it's got hundreds of millions of active users of its products. it's now the latest high-tech company to disclose that it's been involved with the u.s. government's internet surveillance...
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typically the government would ask interpol for a red notice. snowden recently had an intermediary, also with connections to wikileaks, to ask the icelandic government for help. >> i was asked to relay a formal request for political asylum and political support by the iceland government. >> the iceland interior ministry told cnn "in order to apply for asylum in iceland, the individual in question must be present in iceland and make the application in his or her own name." >> in iceland there's more of an established tradition of being very reluctant to extradite individuals who are accused of offenses like the ones that we think snowden committed. hong kong you have the complicated factor of our diplomatic relations with china. it's six of one, half a dozen of the other. >> the u.s. does have an extradition treaty with iceland but it could come down to whether any charges against snowden could be seen as political in nature. however, the first step would be just getting there and that's a little tricky, jim. >> and we have not heard the end of t
typically the government would ask interpol for a red notice. snowden recently had an intermediary, also with connections to wikileaks, to ask the icelandic government for help. >> i was asked to relay a formal request for political asylum and political support by the iceland government. >> the iceland interior ministry told cnn "in order to apply for asylum in iceland, the individual in question must be present in iceland and make the application in his or her own name."...
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and it's difficult because they don't trust the government. so they think you could put 40,000 boots on the ground, could you build fences but i don't trust that it's going to work. >> that's a problem with border security is that people see something that you're never going to get. i don't care -- who was it that used to say all the time you build a six-foot wall, there will be a seven-foot ladder. it a moving target. they've done what they could to identify, let's throw everything we've got at it. i think it's terribly interesting that in order to make a big enough show to collect republican votes in the senate, they're going to create a whopping big bill. i would love to know if you ask them in that polling what if we told you you could never get 100% border security and what if we told what you the cbo said, which is, hey, this will really help the deficit. >> let me ask you about vice president biden. he gave this very big speech today and got a lot of people talking because of the passion -- it was biden being biden. it's surprising beca
and it's difficult because they don't trust the government. so they think you could put 40,000 boots on the ground, could you build fences but i don't trust that it's going to work. >> that's a problem with border security is that people see something that you're never going to get. i don't care -- who was it that used to say all the time you build a six-foot wall, there will be a seven-foot ladder. it a moving target. they've done what they could to identify, let's throw everything we've...
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the pro government fighters say they're angry at the u.s. after the obama administration's announcement that it will help arm the opposition. we will keep fighting until we get rid of al qaeda and all other insurgents in syria and we're sure that god will be on our side. in breaks from combat the pro government militia men sing the praise of syrian president bashar alasa. emboldened by reecent victories on the battle field. >> senator mccain makes a passionate case for giving much stronger u.s. military support to syria's rebels along with a no fly zone to help even the odds. listen first to president obama and then my interview with senator mccain. there are some very sharp differences. >> if you haven't been in the situation room, poring through intelligence and meeting directly with our military folks and asking what are all our options and examining what are all the consequences and understanding that, for example, if you set up a no fly zone, that you may not be actually solving the problem on the ground. >> senator, it sounds like you'
the pro government fighters say they're angry at the u.s. after the obama administration's announcement that it will help arm the opposition. we will keep fighting until we get rid of al qaeda and all other insurgents in syria and we're sure that god will be on our side. in breaks from combat the pro government militia men sing the praise of syrian president bashar alasa. emboldened by reecent victories on the battle field. >> senator mccain makes a passionate case for giving much...